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+====Water Desalnization in Middle East is key- has 70 of world’s total plants. Alternatives to nuclear power won’t suffice.==== |
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+SABBAGH 4/6 ,,NABEGH AL SABBAGH "The Case for Developing Nuclear Energy in the Middle East" APRIL 6, 2016 http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/menasource/the-case-for-developing-nuclear-energy-in-the-middle-east,, |
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+Nuclear reactors can contribute significantly to water desalination. The concentration of desalination plants in |
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+desalination, considering the Middle East’s states dependence on fossil fuels for desalination. |
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+====Water crises cause escalating global conflict.==== |
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+**Rasmussen 11 ~~(Erik, CEO, Monday Morning; Founder, Green Growth Leaders) "Prepare for the Next Conflict: Water Wars" HuffPo 4/12~~ ** |
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+For years experts have set out warnings of how the earth will be affected by |
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+and "business as usual" prevails, then water wars will accelerate. |
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+====That goes nuclear==== |
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+**Zahoor 12** (Musharaf, Researcher at Department of Nuclear Politics – National Defense University, Water Crisis can Trigger Nuclear War in South Asia, http://www.siasat.pk) |
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+Water is an ambient source, which unlike human beings does not respect boundaries. |
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+being faced by Pakistan, which can only be resolved through political will. |
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+====Water scarcity turns the case==== |
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+King 16 ,,Dr. Marcus D. King is John O. Rankin Associate Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Master in Arts in International Affairs Program at George Washington University’s Elliott School. "The Weaponization of Water in Syria and Iraq" 2016 The Elliott School of International Affairs The Washington Quarterly • 38:4 pp. 153–169 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0163660X.2015.1125835 https://twq.elliott.gwu.edu/sites/twq.elliott.gwu.edu/files/downloads/TWQ'Winter2016'King.pdf,, |
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+The greater Fertile Crescent, comprised primarily of the countries of Syria and Iraq, |
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+maintained con- sistent control of since the beginning of the conflict.8 |
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+====Statistics conclude negative - water weaponization proves. ==== |
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+King 16 ,,Dr. Marcus D. King is John O. Rankin Associate Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Master in Arts in International Affairs Program at George Washington University’s Elliott School. "The Weaponization of Water in Syria and Iraq" 2016 The Elliott School of International Affairs The Washington Quarterly • 38:4 pp. 153–169 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0163660X.2015.1125835 https://twq.elliott.gwu.edu/sites/twq.elliott.gwu.edu/files/downloads/TWQ'Winter2016'King.pdf,, |
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+A lack of water contributes to political instability and violent conflict in the first place |
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+Inci- dents in which multiple categories were applicable were double-counted.) |